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Re:How I Fired Myself by x3ord on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @01:10PM (#5293831)
Exactly. I'm ashamed that my first reaction reading this was to blame OP. But in the 2 min it took to read the post I had come full circle to wondering what kind of terribly run company would allow this to happen--I guess the type that hires philosophy majors straight out of college without vetting their engineering skills.
Re:How I Fired Myself by pnathan on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @01:44PM (#5294026)
> the type that hires philosophy majors straight out of college without vetting their engineering skills.

Or hires them and then adequately educating them in software development.

Re:How I Fired Myself by quanticle on Thursday February 28, 2013 @03:14AM (#5297676)
Or one that doesn't have a process to ensure that backup and recovery procedures when something like this happens are as painless as possible.